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Introduction Business schools have successfully remade themselves to be more aligned with the modern business climate. The BBA and MBA are entirely different degrees than they were just a few decades ago. But one business school degree—the PhD—has largely escaped...

The US legal industry enjoyed double digit growth for five decades until the Great Recession of 2008, when demand for services dropped by 5% and outside counsel spending declined by 11%. It was a serious crisis that led firms to forego annual hourly billable rates...

A recent study by Equilar—an executive compensation firm—reported that female CEOs were better compensated than male CEOs. Of 341 responses from S&P 500 companies, the 17 female CEOS made almost $8M more than the 324 males CEOs. Although the number of female CEOs...

Adversity happens. Our instinct in the workplace when adversity does arrive is to deny its importance, attribute it to a person or event outside of our control, or, even better, to ignore it. Frustration and failure are unavoidable, so the question for us is what can...

Making plans for summer vacation? You're probably wondering whether you’re too busy to take a week off from work. Maybe you’re thinking that you can, but only if the resort has WiFi. Likely the prospect of being away from the office makes you a bit jittery. After all,...

The following was authored by Julia Zemnick Gill, Winner of the 2015 GWSB Student Leadership Essay Competition Law firms have experienced excruciating growing pains over the past decade. The legal industry is one of the largest and most profitable industries in...

Heroes have been held out as the best of us throughout recorded history. All cultures commit to profiling and proclaiming them. Their stories are our past, present, and future, told through the protagonist’s lens. We research, record, and relate them for a reason....

Imagine the eighteen months of General Motors CEO Mary Barra’s life. In her short tenure, GM will have recalled more than 30 million automobiles worldwide. Her firm is besieged by allegations of a caustic culture of carelessness, dysfunctional bureaucracy, warped...

The world tends toward continuums. Hot and cold have warm and cool along the way. Big and small have all manner of magnitude in the middle. Even black and white have hues between. Winter, spring, summer, and fall represent varying points along a gradual scale...

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Lessons on Leadership is a resource for provoking ideas and action while reconciling the two. A platform for essays and exchange by the very best leadership practitioners and scholars in the world, it strives to be current and classic, intellectual and actionable, conceptual and evidentiary. It knits today with tomorrow with yesterday to inform those who lead and those who counsel those who lead.

Dr. James R. Bailey is Professor and Hochberg Fellow of Leadership Development at the George Washington University, He is a key-note speaker, best-selling author, award winning educator, and consultant for the world's most prestigious firms.